AN EARLY GEORGIAN GILT-GESSO CONSOLE TABLE, the rounded rectangular top with moulded edge and carved overall with foliage and strapwork, with central flowerhead and scallop-shell angles within cartouches, the Vitruvian-scroll frieze carved with flowers and on twin-scroll supports headed by acanthus-leaf and on paw feet, with pierced foliate sides and on a break-fronted platform base edged with bead-and-reel and foliage, with printed paper label 67, and fragmentary paper label of LOMATH BROS., DEPOSITORIES inscribed in ink Fair Broth, the top possibly slightly earlier than the base

Details

AN EARLY GEORGIAN GILT-GESSO CONSOLE TABLE, the rounded rectangular top with moulded edge and carved overall with foliage and strapwork, with central flowerhead and scallop-shell angles within cartouches, the Vitruvian-scroll frieze carved with flowers and on twin-scroll supports headed by acanthus-leaf and on paw feet, with pierced foliate sides and on a break-fronted platform base edged with bead-and-reel and foliage, with printed paper label 67, and fragmentary paper label of LOMATH BROS., DEPOSITORIES inscribed in ink Fair Broth, the top possibly slightly earlier than the base
31in. (78.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 19¾in. (50cm.) deep

Provenance

The late Mrs Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent, sold Christie's house sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 281

Lot Essay

Designed in the George II 'antique' manner, the pattern for this 'console' pier-table with Vitruvian-scrolled frieze and acanthus-wrapped and serpentined legs with lion-feet, was published in William Jones, The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739, pl.27. Its plinth base featured in pier-table patterns published in Batty Langley's Treasury of Designs, 1740. The arabesque acanthus-scrolled top relates to the work of James Moore (d.1726), cabinet-maker to King George I (see: R.Edwards and M.Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, pp.130-137)

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